Sometimes our sites need a little sprinkling of content management. Not always. Not a lot. But a bit. The CMS market is thriving with affordable, approachable products, so we’re not short of options. […] Sometimes, though, it’s nice to use a really simple tool that anyone updating content on the site is already familiar with, rather than getting to grips with a new CMS. I like Trello a lot for managing ideas and tasks. And it has an API. Why not use it as a content source for a web site? I mean, hey, if we can do it with Google Sheets, then what’s to stop us from trying other things?

“Tumblr2WP makes it super simple to transfer your Tumblr content to your own, self-hosted WordPress install. This tool will create a WXR (WordPress eXtended RSS) file from your tumblr site which can be imported into WordPress.”

Persai is the Web 2.0 app of the guys who write Uncov. They've been pre-blogging the app for months now. I'm not sure how many people are reading this because I've seen zero mention of it anywhere, but it's a nice model to follow anyway.

Weblog by Khoi Vinh, Design Director for The New York Times website and champion of grid-based web design.